--: • r . --I , _ . . . . • L . :,:. *... * . -•'; --. 1 ~, t . 4D,r I - 11111:1i ' V ilar :., " - - ANGRY WORDS • . . • . .1 • . Ii that breast with passion stirred ? • . Hark ! Is that.an angry lvord, ,• . •-• • !Coming forth with power to blast. .. , Every thought of friend lip past, o • Swiftly coming to des4cy ‘ . Brightest hopes of future jOyl - Madman! think—avihilo refrain, - Words,of - wrath aria winged with pain. What advantage doesit brine , - 1 ' • , • 'To change friendship's Crystal spring; ~ ~ : • Where inlight divineartayed, - • , ... Viewless cherubs'ever pl l ayedi . ' •',To a dark and stagnant pool. . • • • 1 Where exulting demons inle! '• '. . . What advantage to co4rode, . - A.nd to darken:heartSth:t glowed, •• • . With affection's hall Ow - •.11ame„ • , ~, .Monster, hide your brow 4th shaMe.. With infatuation . dire • •, By your -words of bitter ire ' . .. • . • 'Yen would have affectio+ spring, - ~ _•.._,_ . ;,,.._Fanned by 'a foul detnonas wing; • . ' You would sink a poisoned dart, ~ ' • ric..p into a faithful heart.' • .., • -, • Quibkly if you s.an rep in_, , Friendship 'treated' With d stain, - -. Quickly erg too late . recal Your envenomed words of gall. ' Who can say he.ever heard, -f ' • 1, Good 'come from an angry ...ord : • . • .Angry words soon lead to hate, - .... Angry words exa.spl,::rate. 1 - 1-:' , . If in anger we correct, ' We lose friendship and respect, ,• Speak unkindly to the Weak, , • • • Bitter tears tear Stain 'their cheek ; ~ . r. .Chide:with angry 'words trio strong, , •' They defy and stilt:go wrong... • ' If we meet a faithless friend . • Angry words the b*telrextend; • - , if he still err, word's of wrath; • ' ,Drive him farther iioiii hisiaath, . . , ;Angry 'words • disturb the Mina, 7Leave dark remorse and pain behind... 'Anger is a•venorn . ed thing, , . • , . . Deadiier.than a serpent's. sting ; Anger iin a momeqean,.; ' . , . . • . To mend convert mail.' Would you. tread the path of life . ' Free,frOm discord, free from strifo . Would the dame or fiiendsilip I.IIoW Would you cheer the: 4 e hildj • of , woe --- - Would you break aftlictionls rod *_ r W - g-Iti you win a son) to god 1 Would you live in bornis of love. As pure spirits live . abole? Never speak with :111, , ,ry frown., Never cast the erring, down. 4,„ • h _. Never let your anger rule„( ~,-.. ' Anger indicates a fool.. Swatled by anger r • 1r....n, a slave .'. Passes joyless to the grave. . Silvertaki, Pa. , . '.J.P. S. ' ASV tittO'lls, . _ i nictolhun Trrritsoit, rropittors. CIiVY . _VAS Cetiitilt,olls Int FIRST DUEL., 4 , 'Father,.Mr. C— was titlking to-day about old college 'times, when ho and you - were students toget.hd . at M-1-- University, in the NOlth, and la the 'cours6: of his coc cersation spoke of a dud cr141.1 you and friehd ofyours fought tirhilo there.( , , Haw WP-9 it ? What crag the eauiel iit me, won't you Well,'my boy ; it was one o' .those affairs of hotior,.as they are pow, "ca9e4; Which 1 •-thought i'brave and cliivalro,uslthing to en ter into, and for which i ariw now heartily ash:tried. However, I 'WiLL-.,reh.te 'it to you, and bid, you be careful - I l e<vou fall , into as dire a calamity. as I, from the impulse .- df my over-quick temper and ,revengeful spir it, became entangled. Mother, o yon wish to hear it It' This was, addr to my wife, a clear, Ititio-efe,rl dame, now looking with eyes of strange alarm on me an 4 her 4oy,tbis having been the first tithe she had ever, du' ring the course of oui. Married life,---cren dreamed of such an adventure of her bus hand's. . • - 1 .• • -'N I : flight: We were told that game had ,been tance,as he lazed behind,, to fi‘ 3 44 or 5i...- 7 - `01,! yes. I should like to know' sc lrief seen that very morning makiii.:... a range Lo- Satan walked silently, , majestically, and as if , thing of that myself ; r ward another bighla . nd, some five mile4'dis- I tired, in (.;eer ,-, e's roar, and like a well-bred : , • ' Well, tlien, here it is. 'cl'wenitv years age t ur a,' and that, without doubt; we should find hour,...Dak 11e was, (ollewed in the steps of his -.... ‘‘ me a member. of the Fresh Men class at, straggling parti e s or deer between, , our Feta: master,. Thus •,Ye s tro , ie along, until within University, a calelessiTeAiess,.fearlesi stand and the 'l'oo Hollow,' sarnOther valley a hand ri.l rods of :be he'd -Se, and then by boy- of i sixteen. My .father, God l, bless him ! between cue bills, far. 'away to the east. We some -.unacceintaLle eircuttistauce,—Satan itresen te'd me, when I left his ropf r ,t' ree in Flor- soon finished our Chat, and started on the . i etrabed. Lis tio , •c and then a good part of his ida, in order,lo amuse myself, inl- my leisure trail, - Satan as usual leading the way.,. - After bed?",between the legs of the already irritated boors, fearing I might over-work mYself if I a f e w .hinadred yards \ had been passed,. and , George, an , : - natarally enougn, down , came had no inducement otherwise,: iwith'a . fin%L.. 2 ,-, Satan hAtl been losi',sight"of for sonte time.; f iheyul t . 'of the rill:, upon ilia devoted head.-- , Bight rifie,,a'ititt of Indian-dressed deer-skin, we were astonished by:hearing fat ahead the I Mv / alter , tion INT; attracted toward the Ili. W , powder and bullet . poßch, mid; to crown loud balving of the dog,yelling in such a.'..rimu- i j piceuret•tpie group, fr , ..w . hearing:jam long,— ba large, mvgifieently-mado do? which he had ner that - we were cil‘inced that game mast 1 1 loud tato(' pill] wilsieh Satan nacre , : at the rought honie with him from Ireland, which- have been started,and that - of a superior final- rebuke, thereby frightening me, and disturb er lie had been a year or two before. • This ity to tbat - we had been in the• habit of Al- ihe stillnesS of the night. I tinned to see die I hound . was of a mouse-color;:with: a fine fox lowin g . On. we went, fast its we could i-eause,,:and beard .George curse the dog,— nose, long slim legs, and ;stood Oeir,ly four a . track--• through ° the' uzider-bruSh, stealing 1 threatening to shoot him if again so awlward feet high. His -eyes were never ti.ll, always a l ong stilly and Slily; dor fear of rousing some] Ile was now soine• distance behind me, and' watching some object, even at hislmeals ; andi.lidden partridge or timid 'rabbit', ' before. we pickiv . irp a piece: of the - frozen crust, I de in his geneiat reputation among the fellows, we r e near enough to draw the head'en tliem.. mand.d - whv lie stvel the hound,and !breat he could out-run;out-scent; out . -bstany dog o,jc ; bowevnr we; went, swiftly/and Surely,-- cued to shook bim - if he didiso again, at the . Within a.hundred milesof . M, Satan was, nearing faster and . aster tbebonnd'stry, and .same Moment throwing. the ice at Ins head,' the name lie bore at botne,4lnd for old re tboyell - ringingcleareratidshriller througl4tbe whieli•-luufortunately struck . him, lie bowed utembranc es - thi s , diabolical, name followed frozen air, vibrated , against the hill-side, and his heal when be felt the blow, but the next : hlin wherever he went: AmoaCY , tie members echOed far away. - .lust as' tie ienebed within moment I say; him bring his rifle hurriedly ~.-,_ or the unacknowledged secret and sporting a few feet 'of our canine friend; Who seemed to his shoulder and draw the hammer back. club to which I "belonged, Yelett . ' The . Prk to be pelted] motionless, save as tOtaying, .I. squang for a stump dear by, bat before I vi sionalgovernment,' was George , . , ,aratli- we distinctly bear4l;a inStling in the bushes, reached it, I felt in my right side a sharp, : , er fast and 'unscrupulous sports an, whose and saw the fiery eyes, and black _shaggy cutting pain, as if a red-hot:iron was•scorch whole time was srieut. instead °PI. histbdoks 'pouts of a young black bear,. .Flightene'd II it my vitals. Down I:fell, full . length on • • as ' it -sllc uld li"ve been,, ooo r l 4ng he wootlilr, admit I was, and sprang back a. few - feet:ap- I, the snow,and for 4 mtnnent all was dark and 1 an.l .1,4.1144 qesbvction upon alt, game, "cif lon the. first 'sight, but4be manly courage of ' bloody :Leforc ins eyes. - I note felt the warm I.laty.tver qualfity, that Crossed . is hunting t ; Geer b ,, e 'reassured '.me, , and I retraced:.mf" Mood Oo . iiii ,, out gush' by gush from • the Path. *To biluas a leader 4 could.haye.how-.1 steps. • Ile very coolly raised' his rifle •to his rwo , and made tyr tee ball. At that moment b .! . kl .. :n s : ubinissi Ye liotna,..;e : but as 4 shot,witlil shoulder, ftttl, as . near its I could judge Ino thought of death or dying, crossed my 4 ' °rl " ltiL - 1 ' 1 " - It'o'lvdr - ed no superior at the direction of his aim,. he pointed•tlirectli mind i all. my tuergie - q, all my thoughts, all that time: f e ~ r I was tliere:u a -wrfect marks-I.bet ween the bea...s';t.'s eyes, and pulled the trig-1 my mind, were bent on the means-to avenge /113“.. Strang e feats .1 could . tell you,•asto i,ger. I at-the same mothent stilled the dog, I.ll3Vself..' I hail no faults at that time : all I tay a:u.L . and gener:tl prowess, but s° they .havol'and waited to . see the etreets of theTshot, in.:c 'e med to-remember was the cowat.dly advan; ~- . ,• iir).'"4''''""l4il the P. reselit • -i '" 46 °"• • . ' tending trip buliot-tq lit, .K Li*. prioved Iti taken of tic by 2/79 fit td (Cleorz•ful"--• . , . I. '° • i .• " . . . - ; - . • `.one saturday Morning, George came to me. and said : Jim, there has hits been a fine fall of snow. last evening, and the nib; bits and squirrels; wild be plentiful' this morn ing : shall we 'try the woods!' . '1 gai'o him uo answer,fer a moment, and he resumed; 'lf you do not with to go, will take Satan and go . • .c.l `Now Satan had great . difliculty in distin guishing between us, as to who was his mas ter: George assuming as much control over him as I did myself, and the dog would fol low him with - as little persuasion as ho wo'd • , Inc. * Well-, George, wait a moment till.l dresi myself and I will- accompany you. . .` I went to my room, egnipped, and started . out, rifle on shoulder, for the piney woods. • „"I forgot to tell.yoti in my preamble that George i s father was ono of the Professors in the - University, ,and. that in college 'honor, Geurge out ranked me. the house he lived . -in was situated within the colle‘ge-grottnds, • and iMmediately behind tile bountlariof the satire, iles woods commenced thick and un- . • 'cleared. the season when the far mers gathered, .. in buckets And • pails; tlte. sap of the 'sugar-maple, anti boiled the saccbarine inice until thci consist-. ent sugar was (Attained. It was a favorite amusement 'of ours to go to the sugar-`camps; far away in' the woods, 'and sit around the big. fires, and listen to the jokes of the boilers,and : taste the steaming - syrup. It had been our customs every day to go 'at the , evening gleaming, and stay till itsat night, smoking — our_short pipes, and drinking our '.Old Rye' out of a leaf noggin ; and wo.never thought • ourselves far frOm home, until we had left . the sugar ImilinVis ir four-or five miles behind. 'Distant about'four miles from our domi cil was the largt:k and most complete' sugar- - camp in the country. Toward this we now bent'our steps. :Satan coursed on before,.ra ging here and there,sornetimes startinga deer or rabbit, which -we endeavored to kill and bag with varieth,scccess.; while on he went, yelling and 'scouting, as if all Were but play to him- Leisurely we 'followed, often excited by the breatofa deer across._our path, 'but never varyifg from our accustomed track, save to pick up Our game,. '• ASl'Oat noon we reached . the camp ! , And around the , fire made in the snow. and- composed' of comlinstilde materials of every description, we found-our old cronies, the :supr-libilerA, and were heart ily welcomed, as. Jest in pudding There in ;the • snow, - some half-dozen yaris iron' the fire, they were sitting on . branches and logs, eating .their noon-day ,rneal,' We I were,-of course,intite,d to pitrtake, and /nick iy disposing of our rifles,' accoutrements, and game, -till to work in -right hungry and 'lnas „terly style, and did our dutr, :with • the; best among them, our long march having sharp ened our already gnawing. appetites.. Satan received as much of welcome as his. masters, and was regaled.with his. share, 'neverscru piing to take his bit from one more thin the Other.. Conversation now turned - upon the state of the, woods,' and the qurintitY of game, where it was best fonnd, and iu•the greatest quantity. 'This camp was honored with Abe; 'cognomen of The Eagle's Nest,' it being . the Cop-most eyre — in a long : range of lilhs; which stretched to the eastward from us, far as the eye could reach, and on various occa sions the great bald, e'aghts, the illustrious emblems of tinfliberty 'of our country; had made it consecrated spot whereon to build .their enormous nests. tall on the height in the fissured betwix.t too Feat rocks,eopld be found mosses and twigs; remnants of.the last resting - plade of tliese , gigantic birds. Itfany a 'shot had George and I had at one 'of those feathered ariStociais, from . the Very spot On which we now stood,, attd . althoUgh Marks men of superior ability, yet neither-had been: able to'oblige one ot them to stoop from his nantrole,,-4111qutiptitit Countit e , Veint'a, Tljurstran orniAugpt 14, 185'0 ipeffectual or insufficient. .43-ut man propos biZore I could briatig my title to my shoulder the hear had disappeared, and his traing as he crimehed the Idead gisili4es der the. snow, could, be diStinctly heard fast receding from his former hiding-place, while the baying . of the dog, in Nil chase, reterbea rated through . the gorges as if miles away.— Off we started, the dog still leading the wag, and oa we travelled, till night brought us to a stand still, : . wearie4, hungry, and unsuc cessful. 'Satan was where we knew ,not stiff ringing at intervals far 'off to the north, could be heard his yell, growing fainter and fainter as we liatene& I put . my • dog 7 call to my mouth, and blew•the usual blast for him forreturn, but ho came not.- Culd, %reit, and chilled, we turned us back, resolving in .our minds to sleep af• the ;amp all night, and go home in the morning, In an hour, we had reached the high ground,and conld see plain ly the red light of the sugar-fire; looming up "clearly and plainly in the frosty air, coloring the, fleet lug snow-clouds with a yellow glare. Trudging along with as much celetity as pos . sible, we made from the woods, striking a direct track to the clearing, which, after liar ing.fallen in the snow a liandrad times, and almost barely escaping rolling down the in numerable precipiees,we•were obliged_ to pass we reached, after the boilers had devoared their supper. No supper ! This was a new inducement. for anger, and our feelings at our poor success were not the most-.gracious and enviable. We concluded to return home,— ' supperless and tired as 'we were, and waited only for the rising of the moon to start. Du ' ring our 'detention 'hero., who should come Stalking into our midst,with•his ears scratch ed,- his hide' barked ; ins hair discolored and bloody, but our. it:Aril:id friend, Master Satan. By all appearances he bad indiscreetly intro duced himself to our other black eAend, the bear;-and some nOt .overaunicable personal personal endearments had been exchanged Between them, from-the effects of - . whiclr Sa tan had hurriedly returned to US -in the un seemly plight ire now presented. One ear hipped rather heavily to one side, scratched mil bleeding, the flesh almost cut through, .-1111‘.., the other still retained the old, fashion .ed foppish ereott , ss, enstomary to his aristo cratie lineage. His tail, carried .on ordicary . occasions stretched out, while running ,to - ies straightest tension, Or curled gmeefully over sleek and shirting, Lark. ,vas now dropped to the ground, and hung, as ii in shramese— betweee his iega. Varous wt.re the specula tions of tee assembled graup, as to the final destination of our wouuded but rattl untamed adversary, autl.taany Wert: the places named as 11::: find; retreat and cover of• the Tlic conjestures, al ti.-,ugh they inspired us with the ;lope of once again Inee;ting with 1.116 brute, and exchanging compliments pith hint were, little adirptel to cool oar feverish blood, now aggrevated by the taunts of some of the bye-slanders, and by. a raging' appetite and by depressing -weariness. The moon having now attained a height at which it cast her rays over the tree-tops, and lit up the forest with her.' silvery beams, Simultaneously we both arose, determined to make home before we starved, to - death, or became too fretful to be agreeable. Tramp, tramp crunch; crunch !—we paced it' over the tow crispy snow, which during, lie day, had thaWed slightly, and • -now, mince night set in, had frozetatill a crust covered the Whole. eapanse of gi - hund, break , creakin , ly underneath our feet. On we -walked, unconscious of the presence of each other, busied onlytyith our melancholy tho'ts and desiring neither:to converse nor listen to conversation. The moon shone clearly alcove ais, and every object. was as distinct to the eve as-it would have been at neon-d ae , Georf_;.e was walking a rod or two behind me and at'intervals he would increase the di • (1-7 Avenge it f f lvenge it teeme d seari ng my brain.: thes4. words seemed burninglinto my life-blood,sceined cutting my every nerve :and urging rice ltd acti ii. Presently this blinding tit - passed-OR Lut the desist:, for revenge still Lang round 'me .with fearful tenaciousness. Satan, nearlY, wilt] with excitement,'` always jumping in advance at the rport of the rifles, was flying hither and thither around . me,— smelling at my side, and ' , :rubbing ! his cold nose against My.face, appearing:to know and understand the hurt ,I had sustained, and seemingly endeavoring" to evince the most perfect disapproval of. the act.. I had- fallen near thestump, behind.. which I had at first endeavored find shelter; and raising my self to my feeti'although the effort -cc'est me the most inteniepidn, I 'staggered on to a`n iuunensedecaying log near by, falling upon it as soon as having reached it. ',Down most this I .lay ifor a few seconds, in the feeble state,nlY3Vhole system racked With the most excrutiatiiig anguish and, with a pow-. erful of the 'wilt', at length raised myself to my knees, and bevelled my. rifle across the log. • I now lotiked around. for George. For a few momen4 . every object, anew, trees, stumps, and Ski; seemed revolving-about me, and I supposed myself drowning, or rath". .er s.wimaiing iitan ice-ocean. The moo*still dam e brightly,! and the woods were .clearer, than before to,My excited fancies. I leoked, after the dizziness had passed, for several sec= ends for Georgenselessly,but when 1 become 'n re compo.ted,- still in great agony , from the effect of my word, I just saw his shadow on the snow, a hundred yards ,- froin inY, Position, and (here I determined to trait his' first mo tion and then seed at biallet through,Lis heart or head. Waiting tiniS I debated wheth.. to air* for thelreast or eyes. My determi natio*was at laSt formed,! and I Mentally concluded to direct my rifle: at his head and kill him dead; se dead in fact, that lie never' could explain tlitcausti or manner. !Thus- I lay deli )erately Plotting a Murder,. the fear of God, or what shouldcome after,nover once entering inr.inind.- Thus I reasoned,; he bad shot mein a moment of passion, he should therefore. be subjted te all the afteriptiuse ciences which necessarily: follow such au act. The ball Lad entered my right 'side, glanced off a-..afast my lowest rib,• and cut through my iiver,!'l was convinced, and now, upon reflection, I ;Stood, a, fair, almost c iipou r the .long,.•un journey upon w,144.1 had nOw fully f he should liear'eottipany,lay, and t dray, too. God . oltli - .:2;tows from who' i lierited such fiendish passions,' Audit , r? 1 I hate and bitter IninaZ) s ity teftard: any one who, had injured 'me but these thougts -all coursed through my brain, - Mid instead of stillify , the fever ‘4lrielt was now fast leatit . ,-r . - my blood and aggMvatinginy bitter passions Reetned further irritating all tiro worse s'ecling,s more and more. I,t seemed an age I waited, 1 but firm to .deatb,l neither spoke nor cried, although my suffe4gs were indiscribable.-- At length I saw the upper part of George's ! be - dy bent around the stump, and then I drew • back the hammer cif the rifle, and drawing the -butt to my sho4lder' as -best I could in, my uneasy position., I Prepared to aim. Up he‘,rose quick and s'Uddertly, and the r°meat he'ilid, so, my fingeit dreW back the t rigger and sent the ball 1 - •hizzing toward hi- bead. This last - effort cost me all my strong h, and filling back on the snow, my. ears, he - art and . very soul were. pier i ced through and through by the most horrid liscream. of pain 1 ever heard, and then all r•bnse vanish.ed. from my mind, all light from my eyes, all feeling from - my body, and I seemed as dead. I had faint ed.l:, I * •* * • 1- 4 One morning I awoke, as. from n horrid dream, and remembering nothing of the oc currences: before narrated, I attempted to raise thy ktud- to my head, which was' rioW aching badly, whetl discwere k l I possessed not 'the 11;ast power of motion and could speak no word fibove a whisper. I' made a alight ejaculation, and before the'. word was , con.Flu ded. George was standing . beside my Led, tears running down ihis checks, and his eyes . almost_ starting froM his tcad. 'God be thanked, J im, you arc yourself again,' said he as soon as lie discovc*l I was sensiblelof his presence, which I could only assure him of by a gli4stly smile, being too weak to . speak a Word. -! • . . i . I . "Do you . know • how long you have been sick : l" lin asked. •- I . :• * • r rcillied with mi eyesin the negatiTe,and he continued : i.. ! ' • . "You bare been subjected to all.thiS pain and trouble by my infernal hot temper and it. is now six weeks a ,, one.sinee I drew the ~ . , . head on you. Yourishot .struck . ' me on the collar-bone'and sliv4 , red it as if it, had been. • paper. I fell on-the Snow, and after lying for it'short time, I crawled down .to - the house I. and -alarmed the inmates by my. title. 'Satan . -- -,-4 - . - -Ar 1-hadeen before me ; he hail yelled, and bark ed, itn . d - seratched'at the doors until he gain : . Led- admission, and Alain' had set up .the Most disinalkowlinz„ running back and forth from are roam to the outeri'kloor, to the a3tOnish men t and surprise of . a 11. ., They had heard - the shots, and supposed them to be the ne I heard -4 annunciators of our ar•approa.ch, it•having ~.r,(.' • ~ 1 been the i'euse, i yeti' know, ! 4ml' th ,' ey 'thong no . more•of it, until our iong , ! delay frig!' eml them, and- they - we're jist. Ooming to,l - k . for us as tgained the doOrway. They jinni:all ately sought after you and when . found you weie . brought bere.,.fainting and . k.rfeetly in- • ~ sensible. The doctor was instantly .sent for,-ii . , • 1 • '• ' I, . ; . . ....................—....-... 1 .................-.....-........... * . ci . . - - --.....-----'-.'"'"."'"." - -F--•*-..---........-.,-- . .-. ... ' • . . 1 . .. . ; Jr •I . ' 1 , . • Ai:ID TIIE'CONSTITUTION.” ames':llue l hanan. - ' *-- -1"---"--7—r ---"-------- 7--- --- - ''' ' -' • - 11 ' • • certain MEE lEEE r in I in- ►tunuig the bullet extracted and Morn r_ ing discovered you perfectly prostrated' with' a violent brain fever.. Don't touch your head, it has been Shaved and. now has no.kair on it longer.than a pia: You must be very qUiet and makeino exertion to move, the doctor - sap, : and you will sooC up and around. I :Satan has en tirely r red,.and ' He're, Satan, come and i see your'masttr,' Located the. dog, who had been . lying Watching Us during the whole conversation, seemingly - ti derstanding the whole, and as much intotied as either of rt us. With a leap like .deer he sprang _With his fore-paws .upon the - bed . nd saluted me rxt, With a joyful cry, as - he saw I recognized and took notice of him, and then in , fond.spbnais-; sion, commenced to lick my face and hands; He seemettalmost crazylth delight, and George was obliged to. - .dr g. him forcibly i away.frorn'tne, in order to keep hint from smothering me, it WS joy. "Can you 'ever, will you fOrgiva, my hasty act ief hateful passion I'. said ,George, .the 'tears streaming froM hisOyes afresh and fall ing upon my. hand, wide!' lie had ,now. be prisoned between his own ; 'hod` knows I did not know what,l . was. doing when •I pulled the trigger otrily rifle, and I; have repented in bitterness of, the act night and 'day, and pray ed and cursed myself fat this devil's work. Jim, I will watch you, -stay dear yo 9; be your friend, any thing for you; if you will hilt say . you forgive me.' 1 I:- : _ • !I could not speak,' the. ,l I.)ig tears Of pity and affection for him wliohaii• always been v i In friend, Were filling my eyes and wetting , 4 my pillow, and my feelings Of remorse for-the pail' I had enacted in this nearly fataldraMa, werachoking me, and the thoughts of all the kind and loving instanees i of friendship George had'alwars shown - me i were exciting • such a my brain and heart, in snch manner thatit was providential. I did, not; r elapse, nearly driven, as I was, raving masl again, and ha word could I have spoken to .soothe his an c ' I .to guisb had his life been at stake., tried.o .4 , - say, 'Yes, George, I do iiirgire, you, indeed I do,' but the words ,stuck in` my throat, and my only reply was a 'fitintllriressura of his hands, of - which lie easily linterpreted. the I • the roam, Just then tit doi T t . tor entered the 1 room, :Mil' to my enfeet d ideas at the time,. rather rudely reproached Gk. 'rge ter so mill Ling ire, as weak as .I at t just sane: This was the hist.time we e '•spekty'Of the matter, by m utual agreentelif Si .v. - 'Months I lay, however, he' tween life teat!, Georg.? m only attendant, Vol would permit no - one to, widt . upon me hilt hinilf, and I .desired nu better nurse,) always near .me. ' Gradually my strimigth returned, and then he strove to enterthin me by read. ing to me from my favor i ite 4ntliors, or Clse col= axi iea ti I/ f'; to me -theme is - , gathered ptir .., 1 , , posely, of allthe village. i §lOtvly but4urefy I progressed toward health, ~,!,,a at last was permitted to leave my room. I MY first - assay washy riding withi:George,,.. Who ,drove . me with care and-anxiety far_; over ; 'to the ' Et gle's-Nest.' We Were. better ;Trends than ev er, adversity had drawn a ba'nd around our hearts which no niisfOrtnne . ebuld serer , and • • 1 .. . at this late day George C t is , the MoSt es .• • I teemed and dearest, nearest, mid most . con .fidential friend , your father possesses, as you well know. I learned from !others part of what I have told you, (for.he mover spoke of ,his attention,)that George, as Soon: as his bro kenbene had been re -set; immediately eo4+ i - menced to nurse me, and had absolualy Watched at my IW-side day and might, until; my final recovery. I have often langhed:an joked With hun upon our many old tramp tOgether, but wanever haVe adverted, or eve hinted, to the bear-hunt.at the Tagle's-Niest ' . • „..., or our unfortunate return.;' 'lie beggedtne to give hint Satan when , I l.eiti g—:-., and could do no less than comply 'with his wish and long the old dog, for he is now dead, al! though,but a short tithe sinceilired with hini tracking the deer till they, were -all extermi nated, and then degrading himself and can ine.l • .1.. , . family by hunting the, timid rabbits front the woods and precipiCes. Tbe'Rtgle's-Nest' , is now a cleared farm; and the' spot is sown yearly with. Wheat or other rain, _in which We foolish boss disgraced our iliumanity and indicated our precocious Sens' e of honor, by fighting our 'first duel." 1 - I . -.. n. ---------40.71M- 11 !" i l The - Rivals , or the Chien; Dough; . • ter. 1 -. 1 : - A curious story is related 'Of the "fierce wars and faithful4sloves!' Of the Indians. It is 'eonneciq with one of the iramense mounds which give so striking a peculiarity to the 'scenery of the prarhis. few . years since, at the base of this wound, a chief resi ded, whose - young daughter wads a girl of unz common beauty, and•thia beatt'ty was but the externahmanifestation of a„p4re and r e ioble f•piri t.'• As a mat ter of course, She had .many admirers among the yoting braves of her na tion. Her nature was aboYe the arts of a co qtiette and toying one among' them. all, and only one, she hesitated not'l to te : -• t..her prefer mice be known, not only tol l the You_ rig Eagle . who had atou her heart, but also to, those whose suit she had rejected. . 'Among the rejected • suitors,{ one alone so laid it to heart as to thireirevenge. lie, the l'rowling Wolf, was filled,' with rage, anil . took littlepaius to conceal his umnity,though . be I»airested no desire' for open violence. ---H these young men were braye, both ful i iu the use of WeaPens,: which far away in the buffalo 'plains had sornetitn4 been used in battle,-but while Young Eaglft „Avis noble, generous; in spirit, and swayed hy Kwel l high itstPulses as, a young savage tuay Awl, the. • I L- Arwas reserved, dark and 'sullen; and his 1 urally lowering b low seemed, after the den had refused him, to settle into a'Lab i scowl. The friends of the Young 'Ea feared for his safety. life", hovreveri . was happy in the . smiles 'onus choseti bride) ,rouble himself concerning the enmity of • flier, especially when he knew himself to his equal both in strength and skill. The happy • couple I ivere in the habit of eting at, the top of the mound , .--Youtig le armed iirith a revolver ho had. received :la white. "One summer evening r just as riloon-was up, Yeimg Eagle soli& the . Of the mound for the purpose / of meeting future bride,for their•naarriage was'agreed 6, and the appoint l ed day was near. One ire( this mound is nakedieck, which- fee. , lir feet or more is almost perpendicular: 7 - it on the edge of, this precipice is a foot- LLii; and by it a large flat sandstone rock isa convenient seat for those Who would_ ins the valley, while a few low - bushes are I 1 dtered over a part of the crest of the .uiel. On this rock Young Eagle sat him . Wri to await the maiden's coming. inl a few minutes the bushes rustled near i i n otnd rising, as he thought, to meet her,a 1 aahawkilashed by his 'head, and the: next i 1 twit he was in the arms of a `strong than forced to the brink of the precipice. The sof the two met in the moonlight, end I / :knew then that the struggle was for life., . I 1 ioned as his arras ; were by the other's p, the Eagle frustrated the 'first effort' of tie, and then a deSperatrs wrestle,a death -tle,followed, in Which each was thorough s a a b d y d t e h n e e d throat . with ; Thu grasp , n, and each instatly grasping his advert tlie o le f ft th h e an W d, dit sou - g w h as 'en, his' eapon with the . right—the one his knife, the other his revolver,' In the snuggle, the handle of the knife of Wolf had been turned ' in 'he girdle,and missing i t at the' first grasp„ ?se he could recover himself the revolver was t is breast, and a bullet through his heart. i l L I flash of hatred from the closing eye, and ~ 'rrn of the dying warrior relaxed'; and as botly sank, the Eagle hurled it over the ,ipice, and in his wrath fired bullet af hul l/to the corpse as it rolled 'heavily down ; this not satisfying his revenge, be ran ad and down the side of the mound, and !I off the f 'scalp of .h i p s foe. 'here had' been mkwitness of the combat, t he ything girl did not arrive till its ter ition, when her lover was scalping his in. His life was 'therefore , iu_ imminent Yes from the justice .of the tribe, and he . V that his only chance was to Stand upon ' klefenee. His chance arose from the mis er the Indians, that if the murderer OS A the blow of theavenger ofbblood---the . tffe t tcst relative of the victim—the _family were at liberty to accept a ransom for the life of .lieir kinsman. "Tbo- Young Eagle .:at: once took the .advice .of his friends. 'Com- - pletely armed, he took possession , of the top of the mound, which was so shaped that he was himself concealed; no one could ap proaeli him by day without tieing exposer(' to his five—and he had two devoted - arnl skilful alliel , r which, together with his position, ren dered him far more than a match for , his sin gle adversary, the avenger of blood—the broter of the Wolf. These alliel were hi s . i i brioii and a large 'sagacious • hound which had Jong been his hunting- companion, and had/larded him many a night when camp ing n the piaries. The girl had in her veins bir, . the hood of Indian heroes, and the quailed not. She demanded with lofty enthusiasm to `made his. • vtife, and then, - acquainted with , every stratagem of savage war, and with sovery faculty sharpened by affection,and 114 htisbands danger, she Watched, and warn ed', and shielded him with every art that the roused spirit could suggest, and which could be safety practised. • ‘• wro: ly n bro tc tinu2i was clan. knd l toml . . TII=. brother of the Wolf prouled about ;nigh' and day.. In: the . daytime,: : to ascend' th e "(mild far enough; for action would be to, - Ode° himself, helpless and. without. c.ire,with • in th range - of the yogng warrior's rifle ; and at, night ho could not even put . his foot t i upon its base without . the - baYing of • the loun giving its niastcr warning,: He at-: Itingtl i hit upon u.stratagem ; and by careful obsen4ation of his young wife, who was fro-. quent'y going and coming, that she :might supply her husband, !succeeded in imitating her dress, walk,. and- manner so e rceriapletely that. hie hoped to deceive both deg and man. His .setlielike was skilfully executed..: ' The. dog wagged his tail, and his ma.st,er slink() to - the avenger as his wife . When there. were only a few-fet between them ; but suddenly. the gate hint hound, disceiering This mistake, threw himself with a yell upon the - ,throat of the and bore him to tho ground. The r , . Lagie now deprived him or ms nd . pinioned his arias >; but tho next enemy , Yonn powi, t, - from an 'impulse of generosity, he free,and sent him home armed as usual. was the turning point , of the wage I The shedder of blood stirreridered to the justice of the tribe to offer a or if that was rejected, to lay down ' without resistance. '"At the day ali t,the parties mot in an open... space iidreds to witness the scene around. 7— igle, unarmed, was first scaled on and, •theoby Ids side was laid down • • knife, with which he was to be slain nsorn wat not accepted. By his side wife, herhand,. in his, while. , of old' men, were dine ivith kani ? -- ltainst them, and so near that the fatal mid be easily , seiiird, stood the family in \Voir, the lather at the head, by , mine set hi Thi dram hims 4 point with It! Thti the gr. a lar4 sat Ins tbo ey: Over a kuife e of the • / Vottunel3, 'Sumba 31, whom the question of life or death was to 14 settled. / He *clewed deeply - moved, and - sad, rather than reven„Tefol. A- rod blanket was flow prodeCe4 and sPread upon the g rimed. It signified that"blood - had- been shed wbiett was mit yet. washed away, tho crimson stain, rewamiug. Next a blanket all of blue was spread over -the red one. It expressed tlFf3 , hope that the blood, might be wished out in heaven, and remembered no more ; and last, a blanket purely white was spread over all, significant of a desire that n9where on earth nor in heaven a to of tlie blood should re main, and that everywheie, and .by all, it should be forgiveit and forgotten. . These blankets, thus spread `out, we re. to re ceive the ransom. The: friends of Eagle brought goods of Various kinds, and .plied them high before - the father o slain. He considered them a, moment, of silence,-and then turned his eye to the fatal knife: The _wife of the Eagle thrnw,.hefarnis around her husband's neck and turned her eyes impler- : ing,ly full on the old man's face without a word. He he'd stretched his band towards the knife when he met that _look. lle pans edi fingets mond convulsively,but : they did not grasp the handle. His lips quivered, and then a tear was -in his eye. "Father" said the brother, "he ,4ared my life:" The old rein turned away. "I a6cept the ransom," he said : "the blood of my son Is washalaway. I 5e4.3 no stainnow on the liandTof the Eagle ; and he shall be . in the place &my son." A Looking7Crlav- . . FOR BANNETT OF THE _ ....qiii FORA =RAIZ , . From - the New York Herald, Nov. 24, 1635: _ The - same thing. will occur on a grander scale, should Mr. Seward . ever succeed - in be coming President or placing a creature of his own to-the Presidential Chair. Disunion would .of course, foilor;-and the "South would at -once require, for its own safety and the press ervation of its property,to make.war upon.the North. Slave properly would not be worth holding on the northern frontier of, the South ern' Republic Without some provison i fo'r tiler ,re-capture of runaway slaves,whichthe South could not extort from, the North except at the close of a succesful war. I3ut, besides the South ; the West *mild in all probability fall away. Divergent and hostile interests would sating up betweeti Wisconsin and New York.' Ohio would refuse to be governed by Massa: chnsetts, and would in virtue of ita superior population insist upon the Noithern &Tilt): lie, which the smaller States would refti•te to concede. . • _ . From the New. York Herald, Decembei 24,1855.—Dennett's pietute . of the success of Fremont :• -.:- - ;f1. - - - i- ". If the last. two years have not been enotigh to show howutterly demoralizing and para lytic are the results of domestic agitation ott the suLject of slayery—if they have- not sert ed to exhibit by their influeuee, that the goy.; -eminent Las :been - tvealened.,..hciw 'it - has been disgraced—hovi it has been made the plaything of foreign diplomacy_how -ithas ' alike distracted- s our councils of legislation, weakened the executive, arm, intioduced into our entire political system the elementio of ariarchy--how it has arrayed section, again :4: section, impaired the- public, confidence, and Caused distrust and suspicion by' one tlepart- - meat against another—if these fruits are act enough to teach the people the folly and mad• nets of further agitations, and of 'the great necessity of returning to the Federal Consti tutiori as the guide of their actions, then ex perience is thrown away and national moral.; ity and wisdom are utterly dethroned. • From the New York Herald, November 18; 1855.—Bennett rebuking and impaling Bennett:.- c Tan SEWARD Poracy• 7 -rr MARES " TWO. 1 PARTIES AND Two Govnuasrmis.—The at s . : -. 1 tinctive SeWard• Abolition party is essentially disunio'. It is based only on principles whose tendeney is and whose effect' -must -be, the destruction of the Government and all its ' interestsits commerce; its: milroads,its man- _ nfactures, its mechanic arts, its telegraphs, its moral power,and, above all, its position be fore- the_world as the representative - of liberal ideas and-popular" rights. These are the sac rifices required of tha American people to give effect to' the UtopiarL.policy of Mr,. Sew- anl—to hiamad crusade - against the Consti- . tution, with a view of effecting his anti-slave ry purposes. . The question conies hotrie to extsting party" 'subdivisions of_pecnliar force: Can a sitars,- of the United States—an dmericancupy any other ground than that of h9sligty to the..- Sewarti rnovement and do his duly to ..his " country ? • That moverniiiit took& - to a ditso lotion of the Union. Those, then, who re-" Bard roots and not Coitus; must see that in r".. silty there can be but two parties in ; this country--those who support the goveininn; and those who seek its overthrow. The 131:. ck Republicans occupy cue of :these extre.toi..> . the bards,-the soils, the Amoicans,the Wh',....-z; in truth occupy the other. If they do nog -. if individuals of either party make the iii. publican °tenets au arW,lp of their.ereZal,the.y . in fact, are .Abolitionists." - ' There are; in fact, but two ,parties-thosx who, with the Black. Republicans, attach di rectly or indirectly, on the ouestion of•sret,T ry, the federal - constitution, and , those" v.-ho 'sustain that" compact. ,All intermediate, ground is a compromise between right ausl _ wrong---a Compromise which cannot be 604.-, tamed, and which must-be surrendered as th - i . _ . contest adiances..The constitution is the onl basis—the terminus of all ethiCal and a11 , j044.- - political_ dedactions from the premisea. - . ~ We have to come to that point in our d...- mastic affairs wheu it ,is necessary,-'itid-'ohs...-. lately necessary, to know alike our friend:: and ouneneintes.• Mulles 'are to be known - • by these designations AS mush as i a Itr i , ,-,;i : - . war. - On; the side, of the governmeatis Ordis zed tha - mpresentatives of all our ,mateti4 wealth and all our productive ifidustry.tvlim,'--- tenures are found in - order,' and the faititli.ll discharge of public dutlea. .We have at.. "-- enlisted against the agitatora the • prp. - trialli..i or the country,—a patriotism that aeldev,lll:-., independence, .and- that • now as . vigiluxitlj , " guards its hermit as ia tbe day of the Ret ; olit- ' dom.! - - ''- - .' If ever that ba.rdeued 'Wretch lias— emOtion-of shame,---if ever iisleh mien of huroilation,-Will he .cot c •fe tt i it now • When. be sees his own opiniOns,like tearing him to pieces,' anti ronaig away froin-the only part of bis expor t . which preAerved hint from univereal ilv tion nal!
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